Neuroscientists are now also looking at the basal ganglia region of the brain, commonly associated with motor control, apart from reward-based learning and decision making.

The new frontiers of this study include the brain’s attention, action cues and even the elusive subject of consciousness.

The brain, it seems, is interlinked and interconnected in many ways yet to be understood.

The brain’s ability to focus on one thing while obscuring, curbing or reducing the signal strength of other (presumably unwanted) stimuli can be dangerous if those turn out to be unexpectedly important.

The brain, evolved as it is, has a unique way to handle this issue, by reducing the si...